Quake hits Japan east coast

HONG KONG: An earthquake measuring 5.1 in magnitude struck near the east coast of Japan Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake, which had a depth of six kilometres, hit close to the coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island, at 4:27am (1927 GMT, 3.27am Singapore time) around 91 kilometres (57 miles) from Tokyo. No tsunami alert was issued. On March 11 a 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused a devastating tsunami which left about 22,000 people dead or missing and triggered an atomic crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the northeast of the country.